Israel is providing humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians caught up in fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, its defence minister said on Tuesday. Israel has not publicly taken sides in the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in...

Residents of a village in eastern Lebanon forced hundreds of Syrian refugees from an informal campsite on Monday, setting fire to tents after accusing them of raping a mentally-disabled man. But a doctor who examined the man said there was no evidence he was attacked, and one resident of the...

SYRACUSE, Sicily — Fifty miles off the southeastern coast of Sicily, the refugee boat first appeared as a gray spot on the horizon, rising up or dipping away with the churn of the Mediterranean. Then, as an Italian Coast Guard rescue ship drew closer, the small boat came fully into...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has freed Mustafa Abdullah, commander of Sokour al-Islam brigades (Islam's Hawks) in Atimah after six days of detention, special sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The ISIL took control of the town of Atimah on the border with Turkey...